• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So when are we shutting down Facebook for their 2016 targeted ad campaign specifically meant to fuck with an election?

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      I’m 100℅ in favor of breaking Facebook into 912 separate companies.

      But not having the current political power to get that done doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it to tik tok while we still have the power to.

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        That’s not what they’re talking about doing. They want to sell TikTok to a US interest. Not 900 of them. This is literally a chance for Musk, Zuckerberg, Apple, and Alphabet to grab up the best short form video app for cheap.

        That’s all it is. It is incredibly corrupt and the state department calls that out in other countries all the time.

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          China doesn’t allow US social media in their nation, specifically for this reason.

          There is no reason two belligerent states shouldn’t be protecting their citizens from each other.

          But I agree the citizens need to protected from their own governments as well.

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            How does us banning TikTok make us any better than China then? How does it make us any more free?

            The whole point of freedom of speech is that everyone has it, even that speech you hate. The answer is more speech.

            Lets see Biden grow a pair and go on new media and answer actual questions, not softballs. Then maybe people will start listening to him. And maybe he’ll learn what we’re actually concerned about.